Research to assess support for carbon pricing programs with different attributes
One instance of the online survey involving choice experiments concerning cap-and-trade programs. We employ many more images than we have used in earlier surveys. The choice tasks in this survey concern cap-and-trade programs that will reduce carbon emissions by a specified percent at some number of dollars per month in household costs. However, the programs are differentiated in terms of their distributtional consequences in county-level labor markets, the percent of permits auctioned, and the uses for this auction revenue.
One instance of the online survey involving choice experiments concerning carbon reduction programs in higher education. Our university wished to understand the willingness of its stakeholders to bear the higher costs of switching to green energy for the campus. The main features of alternative programs are the percent decrease in carbon emissions that would be achieved, and the cost per year to the respondent. But these programs also differ in their distributional consequences, i.e., how the costs of the program would be borne and how the revenue thus collected would be used.